A JOSEPH HOLDCROFT MAJOLICA TORTOISE-SHELL GROUND WAISTED CYLINDRICAL VASE

CIRCA 1875, IMPRESSED JH MONOGRAM MARK, MODEL NO. 429

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A JOSEPH HOLDCROFT MAJOLICA TORTOISE-SHELL GROUND WAISTED CYLINDRICAL VASE
Circa 1875, impressed JH monogram mark, model no. 429
Moulded with a butterfly in flight and a bird perched on a morning-glory vine between flower moulded bands; together with a yellow-ground vase moulded with insects and a bird in flight among daisies
10½in. (26.6cm.) high, the first (2)

Lot Essay

Cf. The Claire Nicholson Weiss Collection, Christie's, New York, 31 May 2000, lot 548 (part) and Nicholas M. Dawes, Majolica, New York, 1990, p. 127 fig. 221 for a similarly moulded example from the Collection of Dr. & Mrs. Howard Silby

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